(Tribune, May 18, 2009)
Andy Cukurs grew up wanting to be an engineer, just like his dad, a Latvian immigrant and structural engineer.
"When we'd drive to Michigan,
we'd pass the steel mills," he said. "My dad would point out to the
facilities he'd helped design. There was a sense of pride. When he'd
point to the bricks and mortar, that really impacted me."
Cukurs, 47, majored in mechanical engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago and assumed he'd work for one of Chicago's big engineering consulting firms.
Every
spring UIC's placement office distributed students' résumés to
potential summer employers. Toward the end of his sophomore year, he
got a career-changing phone call from an engineer, Bruce Stawiarski,
who had received his résumé.
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